Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

2010-08-06 Thread Dana Goyette
On 08/06/2010 07:10 AM, Larry Finger wrote: On 08/06/2010 12:51 AM, Dana Goyette wrote: My Samsung laptop's rfkill switch, on the other hand, is entirely software. If I unload the samsung-laptop module with the wifi card set to kill, the wifi card can at least receive. I'm not sure about

Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

2010-08-05 Thread Dana Goyette
On 04/23/2010 02:12 AM, Marc Herbert wrote: Le 21/04/2010 23:09, Jim Cromie wrote : The switch disables all WIFI; not just the built-in one, but also pcmcia and usb wlan devices Ive plugged in. Do you know how Windows handles this? In Windows, there are two rfkill switches, as well: the

Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

2010-04-22 Thread Dana Goyette
On 04/22/2010 08:44 AM, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 18:49 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: Yes, for a number of reasons. First, we can't usually figure out which killswitch is for which wifi device. It's often just not possible, plus platform killswitches provided by your laptop BIOS